Word: dea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever, P. Whiteman done a swell job on I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE Jazz, M'dea, done swelly...
...Melee dea Ecoles et des Individus...
...over to a gypsy band for proper punishment: a facial mutilation which leaves him with a perpetual and ghastly grin. In a travelling circus, Gwynplaine finds employment as a clown; he winces and tears muddy his eyes when thousands crowd around him and go into hysterical laughter. One girl, Dea (Mary Philbin), loves him and does not laugh at him; she is blind. Another old girl, Duchess Josiana, lusts for him because of his strange disfiguration. Queen Anne hates the duchess and tries to humiliate her by restoring Gwynplaine to his place in the peerage. There follows a superb scene...
Unlike most stage Mammas, she is the dea ex machina who brings about a happy ending. She counsels son-in-law: "I would rather see my daughter nurse a black eye in her husband's home than a lover on the ocean. "Thereupon the hero slaps his wife's face and she , promptly flutters repentant into his forgiving arms. The audience is left to imagine the happiness that might have ensued had he taken a cane to her. The play may be applesauce to Philosopher Keyserling, but it is caviar to a dull season, for it is smartly...
...comedy as originally written dea's with three Princesses who were shup up in as many oranges by the Queen Witch whose machinations pervade the dramatic cosmos. The action comes when the Prince there is one naturally seeks for the oranges. It is while on his travels in search of them that Gilbert Seldes has brought him into contact with the modernism's which give the play its strong satiric flavor, and makes it well worth the attention of a student vagabond...